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Biographical. 


<XOtia0  (BUman  Clatft  was  born  at  Hubbardston,  Mass.,  on 
v  the  first  of  February,  1815,  and  died  in  the  city  of 
Worcester  on  the  23d  day  of  May,  1900.  His  early  life  was 
devoted  to  the  acquisition  of  a  fortune,  and  his  later  to  the 
wise  and  intelligent  study  of  the  needs  of  his  country  along  the 
lines  of  higher  scientific  education.  The  result  was  the  found- 
ing and  endowing,  while  he  was  yet  living,  of  the  institution 
at  Worcester  which  bears  his  name,  Clark  University.  This 
put  him  in  the  rank  of  those  noble  public  benefactors  whose 
munificence  coming  generations  will  enjoy,  and  from  which 
great  advantages  will  accrue  to  the  individual,  and  inestimable 
blessings   to   the  country   and   the  world. 

Mr.  Clark  was,  in  the  best  sense  of  the  word,  a  man  of  the 
people.  He  descended  through  a  long  line  of  ancestors,  intelli- 
gent and  worthy,  who  had  developed  high  ideas  of  the  duty  of 
citizenship  in  a  republic  like  ours,  and  notions  of  the  respon- 
sibilities of  wealth  which  result  in  the  large  philanthropies  so 
characteristic  of  the  section  of  the  country  in  which  he  was 
born  and  reared. 

Mr.  Clark  could  well  be  said  to  be  a  native  product  of  our 
soil  and  truly  be  called  an  American  of  Americans.  He  was 
in  the  eighth  generation  of  his  family  in  this  country,  being  a 


lineal  descendant  of  Hugh  and  Elizabeth  Clark,  who  were  among 
the  first  settlers  at  Watertown,   Mass. 

Hugh  Clark,  who  is  set  down  in  the  early  annals  as  a 
"husbandman,"  crossed  the  Atlantic  with  his  good  wife  from 
England,  the  land  of  their  birth,  and  threw  in  his  lot  with  that 
little  band  of  pure-minded  and  stout-hearted  men  and  women 
who  sought  in  the  new  world  that  liberty  of  conscience  and 
freedom  of  worship  denied  them  by  the  state  and  church  polity 
of  the  mother  country.  From  Watertown  he  migrated  to  Rox- 
bury,  where,  in  1660,  he  was  made  a  freeman,  and  in  1666 
became  a  member  of  the  Artillery  Company.  He  died  there  in 
1693,  being  then  about  80  years  of  age. 

His  son  John,  born  in  Watertown  in  1641,  received  from 
his  father  a  property  embracing  some  sixty-seven  acres  of  land 
in  Newton,  Mass.,  upon  which  he  erected  a  saw-mill,  the  first 
built  upon  the  banks  of  the  Charles  River.  He  died  in  1695. 
His  son,  Isaac  Clark,  was  a  land  owner  in  Framingham  and 
Hopkinton,  Mass.  John  Clark,  son  of  Isaac,  born  in  1730, 
settled  at  Hubbardston,  Mass.,  about  the  year  he  became  of 
age,  and  attained  a  leading  position  in  that  community  by  hold- 
ing the  rank  of  captain  in  the  militia  and  being  chosen  at  various 
times  to  fill  nearly  every  civil  office  in  the  gift  of  the  town. 

Warmly  espousing  the  cause  of  the  Colonists  against  the 
mother  country,  he  was  chosen  a  delegate  to  the  first  Provincial 
Congress  of  Massachusetts,  in  1774,  anc-  during  the  Revolution 
furnished  supplies  to  the  Continental  Army.  In  the  local  his- 
tories he  is  frequently  mentioned  in  connection  with  public 
events,  and  is  always  referred  to  as  a  man  of  probity  and  virtue 


and  an  orthodox  and  practical  Christian.  His  son,  William  Clark 
of  Hubbardston,  a  farmer  of  some  property,  high  social  standing 
and  excellent  character,  was  a  member  of  Capt.  William  Marean's 
company  that  marched  to  Lexington  in  April,  1775,  and  later 
he  was  a  member  of  Captain  Wheeler's  company  in  Colonel 
Doolittle's  regiment.  He  was  the  father  of  William  Smith  Clark, 
born  January  22d,  1784.  The  latter  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Lieut.  Samuel  Clark  of  Hubbardston,  Mass.,  on  May  22d,  1803, 
and  was  the  father  of  Jonas  Gilman  Clark,  the  subject  of  this 
biographical  notice. 

The  son  of  a  farmer  of  independent  means  and  blessed  with 
a  mother  who  came  of  a  good  family,  and  was  more  than  com- 
monly endowed  with  the  virtues  of  her  sex,  he  began  life  under 
auspicious  conditions.  From  his  earliest  years  he  was  noted  for 
his  thoroughness  and  progressive  views,  and  for  a  certain  self- 
reliance  which  was  shown  by  his  refusal  to  make  any  draft  upon 
the  small  estate  left  to  him  by  his  mother,  beyond  the  price 
of  a  Dore  Bible,  which  remained  to  the  day  of  his  death  a 
valued  keepsake.  As  a  school  boy  he  made  good  use  of  his 
opportunities,  and  by  the  time  he  was  ready  to  engage  in  bread- 
winning  he  was  the  possessor  of  a  good  English  education,  had 
a  keen  appreciation  of  the  value  of  knowledge  and  was  dis- 
posed to  enlighten  himself  still  further  by  employing  his  leisure 
to  that  end  rather  than  to  waste  it  in  selfish  indulgence. 
Selecting  the  trade  of  carriage  building  as  a  vocation,  he 
mastered  it  thoroughly  and  then  opened  a  shop  of  his  own. 
Later  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  general  hard- 
ware,  as  the   phrase  was  then    understood,  to  which  he  added 


household  furniture,  for  the  successful  conduct  of  which  he  first 
erected  suitable  buildings,  and  later  established  depots  or  stores 
for  the  sale  of  his  products  at  Lowell  and  Milford  in  Massa- 
chusetts. 

During  the  fateful  years  of  the  anti-slavery  movement  in 
New  England  previous  to  1853,  and  while  he  was  yet  a  resident 
of  Massachusetts,  Mr.  Clark  was  an  early  and  earnest  sympa- 
thizer with  the  cause  and  its  leaders,  many  of  the  latter  being 
his  familiar  friends  and  frequent  guests  at  his  home. 

While  absolutely  devoid  of  political  ambition,  he  was  a  con- 
sistent patriot  all  the  days  of  his  life,  and  his  abiding  faith  in 
the  republic  was  energetically  attested  both  in  California,  dur- 
ing the  critical  period  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  and 
later  by  the  hazard  of  his  fortune  on  the  credit  and  stability 
of  the  National  Government  throughout  the  long  years  of  finan- 
cial gloom  and  uncertainty  which  followed. 

Progressive  and  enterprising  beyond  most  men,  he  made 
rapid  strides  in  the  accumulation  of  a  fortune,  and  was  generally 
regarded  and  always  spoken  of  as  one  who  had  the  happy  faculty 
of  transmuting  everything  he  touched  into  gold.  Upon  the 
discovery  of  this  precious  metal  in  California,  he  was  quick  to  per- 
ceive the  possibilities  of  trade  on  the  Pacific  slope,  and,  relinquish- 
ing his  Eastern  business,  embarked  in  a  general  supply  business, 
or  the  "California  trade,"  as  it  was  then  called,  and  with  his 
partner  in  this  venture,  Mr.  George  B.  Wilbur  of  Hubbardston, 
who  accompanied  him  to  California  in  the  early  "fifties,"  he  laid 
the  foundation  of  his  fortune  through  dealing  in  miners'  supplies. 

Upon  returning  to  the  Atlantic  coast  he  engaged  in  business 


in  New  York  City,  and  during  the  Civil  War  and  reconstruction 
period  made  large  transactions  in  government  securities,  with  the 
result  of  greatly  augmenting  his  fortune.  Later,  he  invested 
heavily  in  real  estate  in  Boston  and  New  York,  netting  large 
profit  from  its  judicious  purchase  and  sale.  In  1875  he  disposed 
of  his  residence  on  Fifth*  Avenue,  New  York,  but,  desiring  to 
maintain  a  home  in  the  metropolis,  he  soon  after  purchased 
another  site  on  Seventy-second  Street,  near  the  Lenox  Library, 
which,  upon  his  removal  from  the  city,  he  sold  for  half  a  million. 

The  contiguity  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  to  his  birthplace  and 
social  ties  formed  in  early  life,  and  its  central  location,  as  the 
"  Heart  of  the  Commonwealth,"  led  Mr.  Clark  to  select  it  as  the 
place  of  his  permanent  residence,  and  in  1881  he  built  on  Elm 
Street  a  large  and  costly  mansion  of  granite  which  he  and  his 
wife  occupied  as  their  home  in  Worcester,  although  of  recent  years 
it  was  Mr.  Clark's  custom  to  spend  the  winter  season  in  New 
York  City.  He  made  considerable  purchases  of  real  estate  in 
Worcester,  and  built  there  one  of  the  largest  and  hand- 
somest blocks  on  Main  Street,  the  central  and  leading  business 
thoroughfare,  and  also  another  fine  block  on  Front  Street.  A 
true  bibliophile,  Mr.  Clark  gratified  his  tastes  in  this  direction 
almost  without  limit.  His  private  library  is  unusually  large  and 
valuable,  and,  besides  being  rich  in  its  several  departments,  con- 
tains what  is  probably  the  finest  collection  in  Massachusetts, 
outside  of  a  public  institution,  of  early  manuscripts  and  choice 
old  first  editions. 

But  while  indulging  his  own  scholarly  tastes,  Mr.  Clark  was 
always  keenly  conscious  of  the  responsibilities  of  wealth.     Years 


ago  when  his  fortune  had  already  assumed  large  proportions,  he 
began  to  give  grave  thoughts  to  this  question  of  stewardship. 
The  pure  philanthropy  of  his  nature  demanded  expression  so 
soon  as  it  became  possible,  and  found  it  in  the  gift  to  his  native 
town  of  Hubbardston,  Mass.,  of  a  handsome  public  building 
for  a  library,  which  also  includes  a  post-office  and  rooms  for 
the  town  offices,  substantially  constructed  of  brick  and  granite, 
comparing  favorably  with  any  town  edifice  for  similar  pur- 
poses in  the  country.  To  render  this  generous  gift  immediately 
effective,  he  filled  the  shelves  of  the  library  with  a  well-chosen 
collection  of  books,  numbering  in  excess  of  two  thousand  volumes. 
The  thanks  of  the  officials  of  the  town  and  the  appreciation  of 
its  inhabitants  were  an  ample  reward ;  but  beyond  these  was  the 
consciousness  of  a  self-imposed  duty  well  performed  and  the 
realization  of  the  usefulness  of  the  means  employed  in  stimu- 
lating interest  and  ripening  faculties  which  for  want  of  the 
opportunity  presented  might  possibly  never  be  aroused  or  de- 
veloped. 

But  like  that  other  great  friend  of  humanity,  Ezra  Cornell, 
the  large-hearted  and  noble-minded  founder  of  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, who  similarly  began  his  philanthropies  by  founding  a 
beautiful  and  useful  public  library,  Mr.  Clark  found  this  only  a 
beginning  of  his  public  usefulness.  Like  Cornell,  he  sought  for 
a  larger  and  wider  field  in  which  he  might  use  a  substantial 
part  of  his  great  and  growing  fortune  to  the  lasting  advantage 
of  his  country  and  possibly  of  the  whole  world. 

His  experience  as  a  business  man  made  him  intensely  practical 
and  may  be  said  to  have  colored  his  views,  for  it  appears  that 


one  of  the  first  things  borne  in  upon  his  mind  when  he  began 
to  study  the  field  was  the  thoroughness  of  the  scientific  training 
given  abroad,  notably  in  the  universities  of  Germany.  It  became 
evident  to  him  that  this  kind  of  training  was  of  high  value  not 
only  to  the  individuals  to  whom  it  was  given  and  to  the  country 
in  which  it  was  practised,  but  also  to  the  world  at  large.  To 
see  for  himself  was  the  next  step,  and  being  a  somewhat  self- 
contained  man,  he  said  nothing  concerning  the  projects  already 
ripening  in  his  brain,  but  arranging  his  affairs  so  as  to  allow 
long  intervals  for  travel  and  observation,  he  gave  the  leisure  of 
eight  years  to  visiting  the  leading  foreign  institutions  of  learn- 
ing, old  and  new;  and  to  gathering  and  reading  their  records. 
"These  studies  centred  about  the  means  by  which  the  highest 
culture  of  one  generation  is  best  transmitted  to  the  ablest  youths 
of  the  next,  and  especially  about  the  external  conditions  most 
favorable  for  increasing  the  sum  of  human  knowledge."  The 
culmination  of  these  observations  and  studies  was  a  resolve  to 
found  a  university  in  America  to  be  devoted  "to  the  improve- 
ment of  these  means  and  the  enlargement  of  these  conditions," 
a  resolve  than  which  it  would  be  almost  impossible  to  conceive 
one  higher  or  nobler. 

Mr.  Clark  began  operations  early  in  1887  by  the  purchase  of 
a  site  for  the  proposed  university  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  that  city 
being  chosen  by  the  founder  after  mature  deliberation  :  "  First, 
because  its  location  is  central  among  the  best  colleges  of  the 
East,  and  by  supplementing  rather  than  duplicating  their  work, 
he  hopes  to  advance  all  their  interests  and  secure  their  good 
will    and    active    support ;    that,  together,   further   steps    may    be 


taken  in  the  development  of  superior  education  in  New  Eng- 
land; and,  secondly,  because  he  believes  the  culture  of  the  city 
will  insure  that  enlightened  public  opinion  indispensable  in  main- 
taining these  educational  standards  at  their  highest,  and  that 
its  wealth  will  insure  the  perpetual  increase  of  revenue  required 
by  the  rapid  progress  of  science."  As  the  first  positive  step 
toward  the  realization  of  his  plans,  Mr.  Clark  invited  eight  lead- 
ing citizens  of  Worcester  to  constitute  with  himself  a  Board  of 
Trustees. 

Following  is  a  list  of  their  names :  Stephen  Salisbury,  presi- 
dent of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society;  Hon.  Charles  Devens, 
ex-attorney-general  of  the  United  States  and  a  Justice  of  the 
supreme  court  of  Massachusetts;  Hon.  George  F.  Hoar,  LL.D., 
United  States  Senator;  William  W.  Rice,  LL.D.,  a  member  of 
Congress;  Dr.  Joseph  Sargent,  a  physician  of  eminence;  Hon. 
John  D.  Washburn,  former  U.  S.  Minister  to  Switzerland;  Frank 
P.  Goulding,  a  member  of  the  Worcester  county  bar,  and  George 
Swan,  also  a  member  of  the  bar  and  of  the  Worcester  school 
board.  A  charter  granting  full  university  privileges  and  con- 
firming the  name  selected,  Clark  University,  "in  recognition  of 
the  munificence  of  the  originator  and  founder,  as  shown  by  the 
endowment  of  one  million  dollars  and  probably  more  should  the 
community  exhibit  substantial  evidence  of  its  sympathy,  encour- 
agement and  support,"  was  obtained  on  petition  from  the  Massa- 
chusetts legislature  in  1887;  and  on  October  22d  of  that  year 
the  corner-stone  of  the  institution  was  laid  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clark 
in  the  presence  of  a  large  concourse  of  people.  In  his  address 
on  the  occasion,   Mr.   Clark  said : 


"We  have  assembled  at  this  time  to  participate  in  the  observ- 
ance of  a  most  pleasing  and  agreeable  rite,  the  laying  of  the 
corner-stone  of  the  first  building  to  be  erected  for  the  use  of  a 
new  university ;  and  although  we  may  all  fail  to  realize  the  fact 
that  a  university  as  such,  fully  organized  and  equipped  in  every 
respect  for  doing  the  work  of  such  an  institution,  cannot  be  called 
into  existence  at  once  by  the  fiat  of  any  human  agency,  but  that  it 
must  be  the  result  of  gradual  growth  extending  over  a  period  of 
many  years,  we  are  taking  the  initial  steps  in  the  foundation  of  an 
institution  which  we  believe,  without  a  doubt  or  a  fear,  will  in  the 
time  to  come  realize  our  most  sanguine  hopes. 

"  Broad  in  its  scope,  liberal  in  its  methods,  and  comprehensive 
in  its  teachings,  it  must  of  necessity  prove  a  powerful  instrument 
in  promoting  the  higher  education  and  fuller  development  of  the 
intellectual  faculties  of  our  people.  Being  placed,  as  we  propose 
it  shall  be,  in  charge  of  the  wisest  and  most  accomplished  scholars 
of  the  day  in  several  departments  of  science,  literature,  and  art, 
those  seeking  to  avail  themselves  of  its  advantages  will  be  brought 
in  close  relations  with  the  best  thought  and  most  profound  wisdom 
of  the  world  and  age.  We  are  glad  to  be  able  to  contribute  to  the 
foundation  of  such  an  institution,  the  work  and  mission  of  which 
will  be  the  culture  and  elevation  of  a  great  and  rapidly  growing 
people.  We  shall  watch  its  progress  with  the  deepest  interest 
and  the  most  solicitous  regard.  We  therefore,  here  and  now, 
dedicate  this  university  to  science,  letters,  art,  and  human  progress, 
in  their  best  and  most  valuable  forms,  and  may  the  Giver  of  all 
good  crown  its  efforts  and  the  labors  with  His  constant  and 
abundant  blessing." 

Within  two  years  after  the  charter  had  been  obtained,  a 
"plain,  substantial,  and  well-appointed  central  building,  204  by 
1 14  feet,  four  stories  high,  and  with  superior  facilities  for  heating, 
lighting,  and  ventilation,"  was  completed.  It  was  built  of  brick 
and  granite,  and  finished  throughout  in  oak.     A  laboratory  build- 


ing,  containing  about  50  rooms,  and  designed  after  consulting 
noted  experts  and  the  plans  of  the  most  approved  European 
structures,  was  subsequently  completed.  The  foundations  of  a 
still  larger  department  building  were  also  laid,  to  provide  for 
future  expansion.  In  the  spring  of  1888,  G.  Stanley  Hall,  Ph.D., 
then  a  professor  in  Johns  Hopkins  University,  was  invited  to 
the  presidency  of  Clark  University.  Although  in  an  institution, 
to  quote  his  own  words,  "which,  in  less  than  fifteen  years  of 
its  existence,  has  done  a  work  in  stimulating  other  institutions 
and  in  advancing  the  highest  standard,  which  was  beyond  com- 
parison in  the  recent  history  of  higher  education  in  this  country," 
he  saw  the  opportunity  at  Clark  "to  be  so  great  for  a  further 
and  at  least  no  less  epoch-making  step,"  that  he  accepted  the 
invitation. 

As  a  preparation  for  the.  new  work  he  was  sent  to  Europe 
and  spent  a  year  there  in  studying  educational  institutions  and 
methods,  visiting  every  country  except  Portugal  and  seeking  in- 
formation from  every  source.  Equipped  by  the  knowledge  thus 
gleaned  he  hastened  home  and  on  October  2d,  1889,  the  buildings 
being  nearly  ready  for  occupancy,  the  university  was  formally 
opened.  Several  thousand  persons  attended,  among  them  being 
a  number  of  notabilities,  including  leading  officials,  well-known 
scientists  and  many  members  of  the  professions.  Gen.  Charles 
Devens  presided  and  made  the  opening  speech,  in  the  course 
of  which,  after  paying  high  compliments  to  President  Hall,  he 
said  : — "  The  moment  of  commencing  a  great  enterprise,  if  one  of 
hope,  is  one  of  anxiety  also.  Of  those  to  whom  much  is  given 
much  is  rightfully  required.     We  have  received  from  the  founder 


of  the  university  a  most  generous  gift,  the  good  effect  of  which,  if 
wisely  used,  will  be  felt  long  after  the  grass  grows  green  above 
each  one  of  us.  It  has  been  supplemented  by  those  provisions 
made  by  himself  and  his  estimable  and  honored  wife,  which  by 
means  of  fellowships  open  wide  the  gates  of  the  university  to  those 
of  narrow  means.  In  all  that  has  been  done  it  has  been  the  wish 
of  the  trustees  to  keep  themselves  in  communication  with  the 
best  thought,  the  noblest  feeling,  the  highest  aspirations  of  the 
age  in  which  we  live." 

The  next  address  was  by  Mr.  Clark,  who  referred  to  the  in- 
ception of  the  plan  and  purposes  of  the  institution  in  the  fol- 
lowing words : 

"When  we  first  entered  upon  our  work  it  was  with  a  well- 
defined  plan  and  purpose,  in  which  plan  and  purpose  we  have 
steadily  persevered,  turning  neither  to  the  right  nor  to  the  left. 
We  have  wrought  upon  no  vague  conceptions  nor  suffered  our- 
selves to  be  borne  upon  the  fluctuating  and  unstable  current  of 
public  opinion  or  public  suggestions.  We  started  upon  our  career 
with  the  determinate  view  of  giving  to  the  public  all  the  benefits 
and  advantages  of  a  university,  comprehending  full  well  what 
that  implies,  and  feeling  the  full  force  of  the-general  understand- 
ing that  a  university  must,  to  a  large  degree,  be  a  creation  of  time 
and  experience.  We  have,  however,  boldly  assumed  as  the  foun- 
dation of  our  institution  the  principles,  the  tests,  and  the  respon- 
sibilities of  universities  as  they  are  everywhere  recognized,  but 
without  making  any  claim  for  the  prestige  or  favor  which  age 
imparts  to  all  things. 

u  It  has,  therefore,  been  our  purpose  to  lay  our  foundation 
broad,  and  strong,  and  deep.  In  this  we  must  necessarily  lack  the 
simple  element  of  years.  We  have  what  we  believe  to  be  more 
valuable,  the  vast  storehouse  of  the  knowledge  and  learning  which 
have  been  accumulating  for  the  centuries  that  have  gone  before 


us,  availing  ourselves  of  the  privileges  of  drawing  from  this  source, 
open  to  all  alike.  We  propose  to  go  to  further  and  higher 
achievements.  We  propose  to  put  into  the  hands  of  those  who 
are  members  of  the  university,  engaged  in  its  several  departments, 
every  facility  which  money  can  command,  to  the  extent  of  our 
ability,  in  the  way  of  apparatus  and  appliances  that  can  in  any 
way  promote  our  object  in  this  direction.  To  our  present  depart- 
ments we  propose  to  add  others  from  time  to  time,  as  our  means 
shall  warrant  and  the  exigencies  of  the  university  shall  seem  to 
demand,  always  taking  those  first  whose  domain  lies  nearest  to 
those  already  established,  until  the  full  scope  and  purpose  of  the 
university  shall  have  been  accomplished. 

"These  benefits  and  advantages  thus  briefly  outlined,  we  pro- 
pose placing  at  the  service  of  those  who  from  time  to  time  seek 
in  good  faith  and  honesty  of  purpose  to  pursue  the  study  of 
science  in  its  purity  and  to  engage  in  scientific  research  and  in- 
vestigation— to  such  they  are  offered  as  far  as  possible,  free  from 
all  trammels  and  hindrances,  without  any  religious,  political,  or 
social  tests.  All  that  will  be  required  of  any  applicant  will  be 
evidence,  disclosed  by  examinations  or  otherwise,  that  his  attain- 
ments are  such  as  to  qualify  him  for  the  position  which  he  seeks." 

The  formal  address  of  the  day  was  then  delivered  by  Presi- 
dent Hall,  who  was  followed  by  Senator  George  F.  Hoar,  the 
Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale,  and  Hon.  John  D.  Washburn.  The 
first  named  gave  a  scholarly  presentation  of  the  need  of  higher 
education  in  pure  science,  prefixing  his  discourse  by  an  historical 
reference  to  the  university  and  its  founder  which  may  properly 
be  quoted  here  as  an  authentic  statement  of  facts.  On  this  point 
President  Hall  said : 

"  "Our  history  begins  more  than  twenty  years  ago  in  the  plans 
of  a  reticent  and  sagacious  man,  whose  leave  we  cannot  here  await 
to  speak  of,  who  in   affluence   maintains  the  simple  and  regular 


mode  of  life  inbred  in  the  plain  New  England  home  of  his  boy- 
hood ;  plans  that  have  steadily  grown  with  his  fortune  and  that  have 
been  followed  and  encouraged  with  an  eager  and  growing  interest, 
which  extended  to  even  minor  items,  by  the  devoted  companion  of 
his  life.  Besides  a  large  fund  already  placed  to  our  account,  he 
has  given  his  experience  and  unremitting  daily  care,  worth  to  us 
large  sums  in  economies  and  resulting  in  well-appointed  buildings 
and  a  solidity  of  materials  and  a  thoroughness  of  workmanship 
which,  I  believe,  are  without  a  parallel  of  their  cost  and  kind  in 
the  country. 

11  Not  only  in  the  multifarious  work  of  the  university  office,  its 
methods  of  estimates,  orders,  bookkeeping,  of  individual  account- 
ability for  all  books,  apparatus,  supplies,  and  furniture,  but  in  the 
larger  questions  of  university  polity  without,  and  effective  admin- 
istration within,  in  the  definition  of  duty  for  each  officer,  the  strict 
subordination  and  the  concentration  of  authority  and  responsibility 
sure  to  appeal  to  all  who  have  the  instinct  of  discipline,  and  which 
are  exceptionally  needful  where  the  life  of  science  is  to  be  so  free 
and  the  policy  so  independent ;  in  the  express  exemption,  too,  of 
all  instructors  who  can  sustain  the  ardor  of  research  from  excessive 
teaching  and  examination,  in  the  appointment  of  assistants  in  a 
way  to  keep  each  member  of  the  staff  at  his  best  work,  and  to 
avoid  the  too  common  and  wasteful  practice  in  American  uni- 
versities of  letting  four-thousand  dollar  men  do  four-hundred  dollar 
work;  in  the  ample  equipment  of  each  department  that  no  force  be 
lost  on  inferior  tools;  in  all  these  and  in  many  other  respects  the 
ideal  of  our  founder  has  been  to  make  everywhere  an  independent 
application  of  the  simplest  and  severest,  but  also  the  largest  prin- 
ciples of  business  economy. 

"As  business  absorbs  more  and  more  of  the  talent  and  energy 
of  the  world,  its  consideration  more  and  more  pervading  if  not 
subordinating,  whether  for  better  or  worse,  not  only  the  arts,  the 
school,  the  press,  but  all  departments  of  church  and  state,  making 
peace  and  war,  cities  or  deserts,  so  science  is  slowly  pervading 
and  profoundly  modifying  literature,  philosophy,  education,  re- 
ligion, and   every  domain    of    culture.     Both   at  their  best  have 


dangers  and  are  severe  schools  of  integrity.  The  directness, 
simplicity,  certainty,  and  absorption  in  work  so  characteristic  of 
both  are  setting  new  fashions  in  manners  and  even  in  morals, 
and  bringing  man  into  closer  contact  with  the  world  as  it  is. 
Both  are  binding  the  universe  together  into  new  unities  and 
imposing  a  discipline  ever  severer  for  body  and  mind.  When 
their  work,  purified  of  deceit  and  error,  is  finished  the  period 
of  history  we  now  call  modern  will  be  rounded  to  complete- 
ness; culture  will  have  abandoned  much  useless  luggage;  the 
chasm  between  instruction  and  education  will  be  less  disastrous, 
and  all  the  highest  and  most  sacred  of  human  ideals  will  not 
be  lost  or  dimmed,  but  will  become  nearer  and  more  real. 

"  When  one  who  has  graduated  with  highest  honors  from  this 
vigorous  school  of  business,  after  spending  eight  years  of  travel 
abroad  studying  the  means  by  which  knowledge  and  culture,  the 
most  precious  riches  of  the  race,  are  increased  and  transmitted, 
■and  finding  no  reason  why  our  country,  which  so  excels  in  busi- 
ness, should  be  content  with  the  second  best  in  science,  devotes 
to  its  services  not  only  his  fortune  at  the  end  of  his  life,  but 
years  yet  full  of  exceptional  and  unabated  energy,  we  see  in 
such  a  fact  not  only  the  normal,  complete,  if  you  please,  post- 
graduate ethical  maturity  of  an  individual  business  life,  but  also 
a  type  and  promise  of  what  wealth  now  seems  likely  to  do  for 
higher  education  in  America.  It  is  no  marvel  that  our  founda- 
tion has  already  been  so  often,  so  conspicuously  and  so  favorably 
noted  in  authoritative  ways  and  places  in  an  European  land 
where,  if  monarchy  should  yield  to  a  republic,  university  culture 
could  not  penetrate  its  people  as  it  now  does.  It  is  thus  a  more  typ- 
ical and  vital  product  of  the  national  life  at  its  best  than  are  foun- 
dations made  by  state  or  church  in  which  to  train  their  servants. 

"In  thus  giving  his  fortune  to  a  single  highest  end  as  sagacious- 
ly and  actively  as  he  has  acquired  it,  may  our  founder  find  a  new 
completeness  of  life  in  age,  which  Cicero  did  not  know,  and  taste 

'all  the  joy  that  lies 


In  a  full  self-sacrifice. 


As  a  synopsis  of  his  well-spent  life,  his  generosity  and  noble 
devotion  to  the  cause  of  the  higher  knowledge  and  of  human 
progress,  this  presentation  by  Dr.  Hall  is  so  admirable  that  it 
leaves  but  little  further  to  be  said.  "  When  the  purpose  of  Mr. 
Clark  was  first  announced,"  said  Senator  Hoar,  speaking  on  the 
occasion  referred  to  above,  "there  were  many  people  who  thought 
it  would  have  been  better  to  enlarge  the  resources  of  some  exist- 
ing college.  But  as  his  plans  have  gradually  unfolded,  such 
critics  have  become  satisfied,  not  only  that  this  university  can  do  its 
work  without  jar  or  friction  with  any  other,  but  that  the  time  has 
come  when  a  work  should  be  done  in  this  country  which  it  may 
not  be  wholly  convenient  for  any  other  just  now  to  undertake." 

In  the  decade  that  has  passed  since  these  words  were  spoken 
not  only  has  criticism  upon  Mr.  Clark's  act  been  absolutely 
silenced,  but  recognition  of  it  has  become  general.  "The  Register 
and  Tenth  Official  Announcement"  of  the  university  shows  a 
group  of  five  closely  related  departments  in  admirable  working 
order — namely,  Mathematics,  Physics,  Chemistry,  Biology,  and 
Psychology,  to  the  last  named  of  which  a  sub-department  on 
Pedagogy  has  recently  been  added.  There  is,  in  addition,  a  library 
containing  about  17,000  bound  volumes"  and  1500  pamphlets,  and 
receiving  for  its  reading-room  about  200  journals. 

The  decennial  celebration  of  the  University  which  closed  July 
10th,  1899,  was  made  memorable  by  the  presence  of  distinguished 
savans  from  the  leading  universities  of  Europe  as  well  as  America, 
and  was  the  occasion  of  heartiest  congratulation  from  many  and 
eminent  sources,  a  summary  of  which  found  expression  in  the 
address  of  Dr.  G.  Stanley  Hall,  a  brief  abstract  of  which  follows: 


"  No  time  in  the  history  of  the  country  could  have  been  more 
favorable  than  the  beginning  of  this  period  for  a  great  and  new 
university  foundation.  The  epoch-making  work  of  the  Johns 
Hopkins  University,  for  the  preceding  decade,  had  made  Balti- 
more the  brightest  spot  on  the  educational  map  of  the  country. 
The  significance  of  the  work  of  that  institution  can  hardly  be 
overestimated.  But  financial  clouds  had  already  begun  to  threaten 
this  great  Southern  luminary,  and  there  were  indications  that  if 
the  great  work  it  had  begun  was  to  be  carried  on,  parts  of  it 
at  least  must  be  transplanted  to  new  fields.  It  was  at  this  crisis 
that  our  munificent  founder  entered  the  field  with  the  largest 
single  gift  ever  made  to  education  in  New  England,  and  one 
of  the  largest  in  the  world,  with  the  offer  of  more  to  come  if 
sufficient  co-operation  was  forthcoming. 

"He  selected  Worcester  as  the  site  of  his  great  enterprise 
with  a  loyalty  to  the  region  of  his  nativity  worthy  of  the  greatest 
respect  and  emulation,  and  in  addition  to  the  fulfilment  of  his 
pledges  gave  it  the  benefit  of  his  own  previous  wide  studies  of 
education  in  Europe,  and  contributed  wisely  matured  plans  and 
constant  personal  oversight  and  labor  for  years.  It  is  as  strenu- 
ously engaged  in  this  highest  of  all  human  endeavors  that  the 
world  knows  him,  and  that  we  shall  remember  him,  and  I  am 
sure  that  we  all  unite  to-day,  first  of  all,  in  sending  him  in  the 
retirement  his  ill-health  demands  (although  it  cannot  assuage  his 
interest  to  see  the  work  of  his  hands  prosper)  our  most  cordial 
greetings   and  our  most  hearty  congratulations." 

Mr.  Clark  married,  October  6th,  1836,  Miss  Susan  Wright,  of 
Hubbardston,  Mass.  This  noble  woman  has  earnestly  supple- 
mented her  husband's  work  by  founding  scholarships  and  fellow- 
ships, to  be  known  as  the  Mrs.  Jonas  G.  Clark  fellowships  and 
scholarships,  respectively,  and  in  accord  with  her  spirit,  Mr. 
Clark  himself  likewise  founded  a  number  of  scholarships  dur- 
ing  his    life. 


©bituar\>. 


'^^bC  %HSt  IRttCS. — Simplicity  and  dignity,  which  so  well 
^**  accorded  with  the  life  and  character  of  the  late  Jonas 
Gilman  Clark,  characterized  the  last  honors  to  the  dead,  the 
public  benefactor  whose  life-work  has  crowned  Worcester  and 
extended  her  fame  the  world  over. 

A  distinguished  and  representative  gathering  of  citizens  from 
the  city  he  had  blest  by  his  benefactions,  and  from  other  places 
where  he  had  won  love  and  respect  by  his  life  of  industry, 
integrity,  and  benevolence,  assembled  on  the  afternoon  of  May 
26th,  to  pay  the  last  public  tribute  of  affection  and  esteem  at 
the  funeral  services  held  at  his  home,  39  Elm  Street,  Worces- 
ter, Mass. 

In  compliance  with  Mr.  Clark's  expressed  wish,  the  services 
were  very  simple  and  without  ostentation  of  any  sort. 

There  was  the  gathering  of  friends  and  business  associates, 
prominent  citizens  of  Worcester  and  other  cities,  professors, 
instructors,  and  students  at  Clark  University,  and  the  customary 
services  of  the  church. 

The  services  were  conducted  by  Rev.  Calvin  Stebbins,  former 
pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Unity,  of  which  Mr.  Clark  was  a 
member,  assisted  by  Rev.  Frank  L.  Phalen,  the  present  pastor. 

The  casket  rested  in  the   large   central  reception-room,  near 


the  main  staircase,  at  the  foot  of  which  the  two  clergymen  stood 
and  uttered  their  words  of  comfort  and  consolation. 

The  Scripture  reading  was  by  Rev.  Mr.  Phalen.  Rev.  Mr. 
Stebbins  offered  prayer,  and  then  gave  an  appreciative  address 
on  Mr.   Clark's  life,  character,  and  achievements. 

At  the  committal  service  at  the  grave  Rev.  Mr.  Stebbins 
offered  a  short  prayer.     The  burial  was  in  Rural  Cemetery. 

The  honorary  bearers  were:  Dr.  G.  Stanley  Hall,  president 
of  Clark  University;  Senator  George  F.  Hoar,  Stephen  Salisbury, 
Dr.  Thomas  H.  Gage,  Dr.  William  E.  Strong,  of  Clark  Univer- 
sity, William  E.  Rice,  Dr.  Thomas  C.  Mendenhall,  president  of 
Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute;  Mayor  Rufus  B.  Dodge,  Jr., 
Lincoln  N.  Kinnicutt,  and  James  P.   Hamilton. 


Htoress. 


Hfcfcrees  of  tbe  IRev.  Calvin  £tebbin$t 

B  former  minister  of  tbe  Cburcb  of  tbe  TDhiitE,  TKIlorcester,  jflfcass. 


Nothing  appears  so  transitory  and  fleeting  as  the  life  of  man 
when  compared  with  the  apparent  permanence  of  his  surround- 
ings. Indeed  his  most  enduring  works,  which  long  survive  the 
builder,  are  a  matter  of  yesterday  when  compared  with  a  geo- 
logical epoch. 

The  brevity  of  human  life  has  been  the  theme  of  sermon  and 
song  for  ages.  The  Hebrew  preacher  tells  us  very  mournfully 
that  V  the  generations  of  men  come  and  go,  but  the  earth  abideth 
forever,"  and  a  modern  poet  makes  the  brook  sing  in  triumph 
as  it  hurries  on  to  the  ocean  : 

"Men  may  come,  and  men  may  go, 
But  I  flow  on  forever." 

But  things  are  not  as  they  seem.  There  is  a  sense  in  which 
man  has  something  like  an  earthly  immortality.  The  generations 
come  and  go,  but  they  do  not  take  all  of  themselves  with  them 
in  their  going.  They  leave  something  behind  them  for  weal  or 
woe  to  those  who  come  after  them.  The  possibilities  of  life  in 
this  Western  world  are  great,  and  ever  and  anon  comes  a  man 


of  power  who  illustrates  this  principle,  leaves  a  benediction  to 
the  world  and  makes  an  impression  upon  intellectual  and  moral 
life,  which  goes  ringing  down  through  the  shifting  scenes  of  time 
and  the  coming  and  going  generations  of  men. 

A  diffident  and  reticent  boy  in  one  of  our  country  towns 
begins  life  as  a  hard  worker  at  a  hard  trade.  He  becomes  in- 
terested in  his  work  and  his  experience  widens  his  thought. 
His  judgment  leads  him  into  new  branches  of  business  and 
into  wider  fields  of  action.  He  becomes,  in  time,  a  thoroughly 
equipped  man  of  business  who  does  not  shrink  from  great  trans- 
actions and  who  understands  the  influences  that  affect  the  rise 
and  fall  of  real  property  in  the  market. 

By  honorable  and  straightforward  means  and  sound  judg- 
ment he  acquires  what  men  call  a  fortune.  It  is  a  great  thing 
to  have  acquired  a  fortune.  It  is  the  measure  of  so  much  toil 
and  frugality  and  self-sacrifice.  But  over  and  beyond  this  there 
has  been  growing  a  sense  of  the  moral  responsibility  of  wealth. 
Along  with  years  of  patient  labor  there  have  been  years  of 
patient  thought  and  study.  A  great  ideal  had  been  growing  and 
at  last  an  attempt  was  made  to  make  it  a  reality.  It  is  not  time 
yet,  and  this  is  not  the  place  to  speak  of  the  realization  of  his 
long-cherished  hope. 

The  influence  of  a  great  institution  of  learning  cannot  be 
estimated  any  more  than  you  can  measure  the  effect  of  the  sun- 
light on  the  trees  or  field,  or  weigh  the  sweet  influence  of  the 
stars  on  the  mind  of  a  thoughtful  beholder.  Its  influence,  like  the 
influence  of  the  great  law  of  gravitation,  is  silent,  but  unlike  that 
law  it  cannot  be  estimated  because  it  works  in  the  world  of  minds. 


An  institution  founded  on  the  principles  thus  far  pursued 
at  Clark  University  comes  to  the  realization  of  its  power  and 
influence,  as  the  Kingdom  of  God  comes  to  earth,  "  without 
any  show  that  it  should  be  watched  for."  But  if  the  first  decade 
of  its  existence  can  be  taken  as  an  indication  of  what  is  to  be 
in  the  future,  Founder's  Day  at  the  end  of  a  century  will  be  a 
day  commemorated  not  only  within  academic  walls,  but  where- 
ever  a  silent  worker  is  endeavoring  to  read  in  the  great  manu- 
script of  God,  which  we  call  nature,  and  in  that  more  wonderful 
book  of  human   nature. 

Mr.  Clark's  generosity  was  along  great  lines.  With  him  fru- 
gality was  the  mother  of  munificence,  and  he  held  himself,  what- 
ever may  have  been  his  private  feelings,  steadily  to  one  purpose, 
and  that  purpose  was  a  great  one  fraught  with  incalculable  bene- 
fits. He  was  a  man  who  had  high  ideas  of  moral  relations  in 
business  and  in  life.  He  was  very  reticent,  seldom  took  others 
into  his  confidence,  and  seldom  went  into  co-operation  with  other 
men.  He  seems  to  have  felt  himself  strong  enough  to  accom- 
plish any  and  all  of  his  purposes.  He  had  at  all  times  and  every- 
where the  manners  and  habits  of  a  gentleman ;  indeed,  his  man- 
ners were  illustrations  of  his  character.  He  loved  to  do  business 
and  he  loved  to  do  it  on  a  large  scale,  but  he  did  not  forget 
the  culture  of  mind  and  heart,  so  often  forgotten  by  business  men. 

He  was  a  lover  of  books,  and  had  remarkable  judgment  in 
their  selection  and  an  exquisite  taste  for  fine  bindings.  In  his 
handling  of  books  one  could  see  that  he  felt  that,  as  Milton  has 
said,  "a  good  book  is  the  precious  life-blood  of  a  master  spirit 
embalmed   and  treasured  up  on  purpose    to  a  life  beyond   life." 


He  was  an  industrious  and  intelligent  reader  and  easily  put  him- 
self in  accord  with  the  great  authors. 

There  are  things  as  well  as  persons  that  hold  us  in  life  be- 
cause we  love  them,  and  parting  with  them  is  hard.  Among 
the  very  last  things  Mr.  Clark  spoke  of  were  his  books.  It  was 
characteristic,  his  last  thoughts  were  with  the  immortals. 

He  brought  to  everything  that  interested  him  the  enthusiasm 
of  a  boy  as  well  as  the  wisdom  of  a  man  of  affairs.  At  the 
breaking  out  of  the  rebellion,  California  was  a  very  doubtful 
State.  He  felt  the  importance  of  the  great  principles  involved 
in  the  issue  and  gave  liberally  of  his  money  and  devoted  all  his 
great  powers  as  an  organizer  to  the  cause  of  the  Union,  which 
he  felt  was  sacred. 

Mr.  Clark  has  left  a  splendid  record  as  a  business  man  and 
a  citizen.  It  is  an  unsullied  record  of  honesty  and  personal  in- 
tegrity— of  great  powers  guided  by  sound  judgment,  of  gener- 
osity inspired  by  the  noble  purpose  of  advancing  learning  for  the 
amelioration  of  man's  estate. 

The  religious  tone  and  temper  of  the  household  is  well  ex- 
pressed in  a  favorite  hymn : 

"Behold  the  western  evening  light! 
It  melts  in  deepening  gloom : 
So  calm  the  righteous  sink  away, 
Descending  to  the  tomb. 

"  The  winds  breathe  low;  the  yellow  leaf 
Scarce  whispers  from  the  tree ; 
So  gently  flows  the  parting  breath, 
When  good  men  cease  to  be, 


"  How  beautiful,  on  all  the  hills, 
The  crimson  light  is  shed ! 
'Tis  like  the  peace  the  dying  gives 
To  mourners  round  his  bed. 

"  How  mildly,  on  the  wandering  cloud, 
The  sunset  beam  is  cast! 
So  sweet  the  memory  left  behind, 
When  loved  ones  breathe  their  last. 

"And  lo !  above  the  dews  of  night 
The  vesper  star  appears ; 
So  faith  lights  up  the  mourner's  heart 
Whose  eyes  are  dim  with  tears. 

"  Night  falls;  but  soon  the  morning  light 
Its  glories  shall  restore: 
And  thus  the  eyes  that  sleep  in  death 
Shall  wake  to  close  no  more." 


IResolutions. 


Gbe  faculty  of  Clark  ^University. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  Faculty  of  Clark  University,  May  24th, 
the  following  action  was  taken : 

We  desire  to  record  our  deep  sorrow  at  the  death  of  the 
founder  of  the  University.  His  philanthropy,  expressed  by  a 
gift  then  larger  than  any  other  in  the  history  of  education,  es- 
tablished here  an  institution  which  has  so  far  been  unique  as 
devoted  solely  to  graduate  work.  He  has  not  only  taken  a  deep 
personal  interest  in  the  scientific  work  of  the  University  in 
general  and  in  each  instructor,  but  given  unremitting  personal 
attention  to  nearly  every  detail  of  the  library  for  which  he  made 
special  and  most  liberal  provision,  and  to  the  grounds  and  also 
to  the  buildings  of  which  he  planned  and  personally  directed 
the  construction. 

It  was  also  voted  : 

That  the  special  sympathy  of  the  Faculty  be  extended 
to  Mrs.  Clark,  to  whom  the  secretary  was  instructed  to 
forward  a  copy  of  this  action. 

It  was  voted : 

That  all  regular  exercises  of  the  University  be  sus- 
pended and  the  flag  kept  at  half  mast  till  after  the 
funeral,  and  that  the  building  be  suitably  draped. 

William  E.  Story, 

Secretary  of  the  Facility. 


Communication  to  tbe  jfacult^. 


Worcester,   Mass.,  May  24th,  1900. 

To  the  Faculty  of  Clark  University: — 

Desiring  to  make  an  expression  of  our  sympathy  for  Mrs. 
Clark  in  her  deep  bereavement,  because  of  the  death  of  her 
husband,  and  also  to  pay  our  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  man 
who  has  done  so  much  for  our  own  and  the  interests  of  higher 
education,  we  beg  to  communicate  to  you  the  accompanying 
resolution  of  the  student  body  and  to  ask  you  to  transmit  to 
Mrs.  Clark  our  expression  in  whatever  manner  and  form  you 
may  think  best. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

Frank  B.  Williams, 

Norman  Triplett, 

■    Committee. 

P.  W.  Search, 
J.  E,  Ives, 


•Resolutions  of  tbe  Stufcents  of  Clark  ^University  on  tbe 
^eatb  of  its  founfcer,  fIDr.  3onas  (3.  Clark. 


Recognizing  the  high  worth  of  the  opportunity  conferred  on 
us  by  the  philanthropic  enterprise  of  our  university's  founder, 
we,  the  students  of  Clark  University,  desire  to  express  to  Mrs. 
Clark  our  profound  sympathy  in  this  hour  of  suffering  caused  by 
the  death  of  her  husband  and  our  friend  and  benefactor,  Mr, 
Jonas  G.  Clark. 

We  also  desire  to  express  our  deep  appreciation  of  the  great 
value  of  this  university,  planned,  founded,  equipped,  and  con- 
ducted for  the  higher  training  of  men.  To  us  the  university 
has  been  full  of  inspiration  and  enriching  opportunity.  It  meets 
our  needs  in  our  desire  for  original  investigation,  personal  asso- 
ciation, and  higher  training. 

We  take  pride  in  the  high  position  accorded  Clark  Univer- 
sity in  the  educational  circles  of  the  world,  and  desire  to  pay  our 
tribute  to  the  memory  and  worth  of  the  noble  man  who  has  made 
these  things  possible. 


Clark  University, 

May  24th,  1900. 


^Worcester  mational  Bank. 

Special  Meeting,  dfta£  25tb,  1900. 


The  following  action  in  regard  to  the  death  of  Mr.  Jonas  G. 
Clark,  proposed  by  the  President,  Mr.  Salisbury,  was  unanimously 
adopted : 

The  Directors  of  the  Worcester  National  Bank  are  called  upon 
to  meet  the  loss  of  one  of  their  number  whose  large  experience 
and  cautious  judgment  made  him  useful  in  a  high  degree  to  the 
policy  and  standing  of  the  bank.  Jonas  G.  Clark  became  a 
director  in  1885,  in  the  maturity  of  his  life,  accustomed  to  large 
operations  and  with  a  mind  quickened  by  large  acquaintance  with 
the  men  who  have  shaped  the  conduct  of  events.  The  position 
seemed  congenial  to  his  tastes,  and  certainly  his  associates  were 
much  aided  by  his  participation  in  their  action. 

The  Directors  remember  the  constant  urbanity  and  courtesy 
of  Mr.  Clark  in  all  his  intercourse  with  them  and  with  others 
with  whom  he  was  thrown. 

The  great  purpose  of  his  life,  the  higher  education  and  ele- 
vation of  man,  determined  upon  at  the  height  of  his  prosperity 
and,  usefulness,  led  him  to  seek  an  opportunity  for  putting  his 
plan  into  operation. 


By  travel  and  observation  Mr.  Clark  at  length  decided  upon 
a  course  of  action  and  devoted  his  whole  thought  to  this  object. 
The  result  has  been  the  creation  of  a  university  system  en- 
tirely unique  in  this  country  and  having  little  resemblance  to  any 
department  of  institutions  of  learning  of  the  old  world. 

The  development  of  this  life-work  of  Mr.  Clark  took  place 
during  his  connection  with  the  Worcester  National  Bank,  and  it 
was  a  source  of  gratification  that  one  of  our  number  was  able 
to  do  so  much  for  his  time. 

The  Directors  desire  to  record  their  sense  of  personal  loss 
in  the  companionship  of  a  man  of  so  wide  an  experience  of  life, 
and  the  hope  that  the  grief  of  Mrs.  Clark  may  be  somewhat 
assuaged  with  the  reflection  that  Providence  has  permitted  this 
happy  union  to  remain  unbroken  for  so  many  years. 


public  Xtbrar$  Committee. 

fnibbarOston,  /ifcass. 


Whereas,  The  Wise  Ruler  of  the  universe  has  taken  from 
us  our  kind  friend  and  benefactor,  Jonas  Gilman  Clark,  who 
erected  and  presented  the  beautiful  building  which  is  now  the 
home  of  our  public  library,  and 

Whereas,  His  continued  interest  in  the  library  has  from  time 
to  time  prompted  him  to  confer  large  gifts  of  money  and  books ; 
therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we  hereby  acknowledge  with  deep  gratitude 
his  numerous  bequests  with  the  assurance  that  his  memory  will 
be  held  by  us  in  highest  esteem,  with  the  wish  that  the  build- 
ing may  stand  as  an  enduring  monument  to  his  kind  generosity; 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the 
widow  of  the  late  Mr.  Clark,  and  also  spread  upon  the  records 
of  our  Association. 

J.   Harry  Allen, 

Wm.  H.  Wheeler, 

Charles  Grimes,  Library 

Lois  E.  Warren,  *"  Committee. 

Granville  Marean, 

Allen  S.  Woodward. 


Hubbardston,  Mass.,  May  25th,   1900. 


tributes. 


from  tbe  Worcester  Spp, 

dfcaB  24tb,  1900. 


Jonas  Gilman  Clark,  whose  death  occurred  at  his  home  on 
Elm  Street  last  evening,  will  always  be  remembered  as  the  founder 
of  the  great  university  that  bears  his  name.  His  death  will  be 
as  sincerely  mourned  in  every  educational  centre  of  the  world  as 
in  the  community  where  he  has  passed  the  best  and  brightest 
years  of  his  life — best  in  that  here  he  conceived  and  executed 
the  great  purpose  of  his  life,  and  brightest  in  that  he  lived  to 
see  its  blessings  spread  around  the  world. 

Mr.  Clark  was  a  rare  type  of  New  England  manhood,  self- 
made,  the  master  of  circumstances,  and  the  sole  architect  of  his 
own  fortunes.  From  his  boyhood  in  Hubbardston  through  his 
youth  and  young  manhood,  while  acquiring  and  working  at  his 
trade  of  carriage  builder,  his  main  characteristic  was  thorough- 
ness and  a  determination  to  excel   in  whatever  he  attempted. 

In  later  years  he  was  fond  of  mildly  boasting  that  he  could 
make  any  part  of  a  carriage  as  well  or  better  than  any  workman 
he  could  find.  While  not  a  vain  man,  he  believed  in  himself, 
in  his  own  purpose,  his  convictions  and  his  methods.  With  a 
masterly  grasp  of   detail,  he  united  a  capacity  to  think  broadly 


along  all  lines  in  which  he  was  interested,  and  was  an  apt  learner 
from  the  failures  and  successes  of  others. 

Of  simple  habits,  untiring  energy,  and  devotion  to  business, 
private  and  public,  and  commanding  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact  by  his  firm  honesty  and 
uprightness,  it  was  inevitable  that  he  should  amass  a  fortune  in 
comparatively  a  few  years. 

Childless  and  with  a  keen  responsibility  attaching  to  his 
wealth,  it  was  natural  that  his  thoughts  should  turn  back  to 
Worcester  County,  his  early  home.  It  is  well  known  by  those 
who  were  near  to  him  that  he  first  planned  to  build  a  college 
in  Worcester  where  Worcester  County  boys  could  acquire  a  col- 
lege training  at  less  cost  and  with  fewer  temptations  to  the  sin 
of  extravagance  than  in  the  older  and  larger  institutions  of 
New   England. 

His  later  travel  and  study  of  foreign  institutions,  especially 
universities  of  Germany,  coupled  with  the  strenuous  advice  of 
his  friends,  Andrew  D.  White  of  Columbia,  President  Eliot  of 
Harvard,  G.  Stanley  Hall,  and  other  leaders  of  thought  and 
education,  persuaded  him  to  change  his  plans  and  to  lay  the 
foundation  of  a  university  that  should  make  a  post-graduate 
course  in  higher  education  and  original  research  possible  without 
the  expense  of  time  and  money  in  foreign  lands. 

Without  dwelling  upon  the  great  achievements  already  accom- 
plished by  the  university  which  bears  his  name  and  to  which 
five  of  the  foremost  representatives  of  the  leading  universities 
of  Europe  gave  their  remarkable  testimony  by  their  presence  at 
the  decennial   celebration,  last  July,  it  is  a  matter  for  rejoicing 


that,  although  not  able  to  take  part  in  the  decennial  exercises, 
he  watched  and  noted  from  his  sick-room  in  Princeton,  with 
growing  pleasure  and  satisfaction,  the  local  recognition  of  the 
occasion  and  the  grateful  testimony  of  the  press  and  the  foreign 
visitors,  of  the  record  made  and  the  great  future  promise  of  the 
institution  he  alone  had  founded   and  endowed  so   munificently. 

It  was  his  lot  to  bear  with  wonderful  fortitude  great  physical 
suffering  during  the  last  months  of  his  life. 

There  is  neither  time  nor  place  here  for  eulogy.  The  fitting 
words  to  close  his  earthly  career  yet  remain  to  be  spoken  by 
those  who  shared  his  thoughts  and  joined  with  him  in  the 
realization  of  the  purpose  to  which  he  so  generously  and  nobly 
consecrated  not  only  his  wealth,  but  almost  his  every  thought 
for  more  than  a  decade,  since  the  first  announcement  was  made 
that  Jonas  G.  Clark  had  given  to  Worcester  a  university  des- 
tined to  rival  in  its  own  peculiar  field  the  best  the  world  has 
ever   known. 


Jfrom  tbe  TKHorcester  Evening  <3a3ette, 

dbag  24tb,  t900. 


Mr.  Clark's  achievements  are  truly  remarkable.  The  accumu- 
lation of  a  great  fortune  was  not  of  itself  so  wonderful,  for  many 
Americans  of  his  generation  were  able  to  rise  to  equal  heights 
from  fully  as  small  beginnings.  But  the  ideals  conceived  by 
the  man  were  so  lofty  as  to  astound  one  who  realized  their  origin. 

He  conceived  of  a  university  without  a  parallel  in  this  coun- 
try, whose  scope  and  aims  were  to.  be  wider  and  higher  than  it 
would  seem  possible  for  an  unprofessional  man  to  comprehend. 

He  gave  his  heart  and  soul,  body  and  mind  to  the  fulfilment 
of  that  ideal.  He  travelled  and  studied  until  he  had  so  thorough 
a  grasp  of  the  subject  that  he  astonished  the  eminent  educators 
with  whom  he  consulted.  He  realized  every  detail  of  the  needs 
of  such  an  institution  as  he  desired  to  establish. 

This  thoroughness  and  energy  resulted  in  the  founding  of  a 
university  which,  in  the  short  space  of  ten  years,  and  hampered 
by  many  trying  conditions,  has  taken  a  position  at  the  forefront 
of  the  world's  great  educational  establishments.  Its  scope  is 
confined  to  the  most  recondite  study  and  work.  Only  a  limited 
number  will  ever  be  drawn  by  its  attractions.     But  such  work  as 


it  makes  possible  is  essential  to  the  possession  of  the  greatest 
amount  of  knowledge,  and  the  presence  in  America  of  such  an 
institution  is  a  constant  stimulus  to  the  best  intellectual  endeavor. 

With  greater  resources  the  importance  of  this  work  can  be 
greatly  increased,  and  with  the  passing  of  the  years  Clark  Uni- 
versity should  move  from  among  the  best  to  the  very  head  of 
its  class. 

That  is  what  Jonas  G.  Clark  accomplished;  a  result  not  sur- 
passed by  any  American.  Worcester  was  honored  to  a  great 
degree  in  being  chosen  as  the  place  in  which  to  carry  out  such 
a  noble  plan.  The  people  of  Worcester  should  not  forget  this, 
and  should  always  hold  in  high  reverence  the  memory  of  the 
man  who  did  so  much  and  who  suffered  so  much. 


jfrom  tbe  Worcester  2>ail£  Gelearam, 

flbag  24tb,  1900. 


Worcester  owes  its  greatest  educational  institution  to  Jonas 
G.  Clark. 

Clark  University  is  his  creation.  Mr.  Clark  had  been  look- 
ing about  for  a  long  time  to  find  the  best  use  for  his  great 
wealth.  The  university  appealed  to  him  as  a  great  source  of 
good  to  humanity. 

So  he  studied  universities.  He  went  to  all  modern  universi- 
ties and  examined  into  their  methods.  He  went  to  the  ancient 
seats  of  learning,  and  studied  their  methods  and  scope  so  far  as 
he  could,  and  their  libraries.  He  took  deep  interest  in  the 
books  of  the  ancients  and  of  the  scholars  of  the  middle  ages. 
Many  such  are  in  his  house  on  Elm  Street  or  stored  in  safe- 
deposit  vaults.  He  hit  upon  the  highest  possible  courses  of 
study  and  research  as  the  most  valuable,  and  determined  the 
university  he  was  to  create  should  be  on  the  highest  plane.  It 
was  the  result  of  his  visits  to  Thebes,  Heliopolis,  Memphis, 
Alexandria,  Jerusalem,   Constantinople,  and  Athens. 

Ten  years  had  passed  by  last  year,  and  the  results  of  the 
$2,000,000  invested  by  Mr.   Clark    in    the  University  were   sub- 


stantial  dividends  in  the  form  of  work  accomplished  for  the 
advancement  of  science  and  the  sending  out  into  the  world  of 
bright  and  trained  men  to  continue  the  good  work  of  higher 
education.  The  presence  of  distinguished  savants  from  European 
universities  marked  the  decennial  celebration.  Mr.  Clark  could 
not  himself  be  present,  for  his  age  had  already  brought  with  it 
failing  health,  and  he  was  physically  unable  to  attend  the  exer- 
cises and  see  with  his  own  eyes  and  hear  with  his  own  ears 
what  had  been  accomplished  and  in  what  appreciation  his  good 
work  is  held  by  the  men  who  know  best  the  real  fruits  of  such 
an  educational  tree. 


from  tbe  XKHorceater  Evening  post, 

dBas  24tb,  1900. 


Jonas  G.  Clark,  who  died  at  his  palatial  residence  on  Elm 
Street  last  evening,  aged  85  years,  was  a  genuine  type  of  the 
American  self-made  man. 

By  untiring  energy  and  shrewd  business  capacity  he  accumu- 
lated a  large  fortune.  Part  of  this  he  donated  for  public  pur- 
poses prior  to  his  death. 

To  his  native  Hubbardston  he  gave  a  town  hall  and  public 
library,  which  he  has  endowed.  It  is  to  Worcester,  however, 
that  Mr.  Clark  gave  his  biggest  gift.  To  this  city  he  has  been 
a  generous  benefactor.  Clark  University  will  perpetuate  his 
name,  and  future  generations  of  Worcester  people  will  remember 
him  gratefully  as  the  founder  of  an  educational  institution  that 
is  known  the  world  over. 

Mr.  Clark  possessed  the  strong  New  England  character,  which, 
combined  with  his  native  thrift  and  shrewdness,  gave  him  a 
breadth  of  view  and  ability  to  achieve  and  execute,  and  made  him 
a  power  and  a  leader  among  men.  Of  great  modesty,  he  was 
the  urbane  Christian  gentlemen  and  scholar.  His  love  of  learn- 
ing was  a  marked  characteristic  of  his  nature,  and  free  from  all 


cant,  hypocrisy,  or  religious  prejudice,  he  believed  in  the  good 
of  mankind.  His  wish  was  to  elevate  and  uplift  man,  and  to 
disseminate  human  knowledge  and  make  his  fellow  men  happier 
and  wiser,  as  his  wealth  directed. 

To  his  broad  philanthropy  and  generosity  of  heart,  Clark 
University  is  a  monument  which  will  make  his  name  revered  for 
all  time,  and  held  in  affectionate  esteem  by  the  city  of  Worcester, 
which  has  so  richly  profited  by  his  benefactions. 


Jfrom  2>r.  6.  Stanley  1ballt 

presfoent  of  Glarft  XDtnivereitu. 


The  following  interview  with  Dr.  Hall  appeared  in  the 
Worcester  Spy  on  the  morning  following  Mr.   Clark's  death  : — 

I  have  been  fearing  and  anticipating  this  sad  event  for  several 
weeks,  and  it  is  a  source  of  great  personal  regret.  Our  associa- 
tions have  been  extremely  close.  Until  his  illness  caused  him 
gradually  to  withdraw,  his"  interest  in  the  University  was  keen 
and  earnest. 

For  more  than  six  months  before  and  during  the  building 
of  the  University  I  lived  at  his  house.  I  never  saw  a  man 
whose  whole  soul  went  deeper  into  an  enterprise,  or  one  who 
showed  more  self-sacrifice  and  devotion.  He  had  incubated  in 
private  this  university  scheme,  and  it  was  years  before  he  made 
it  known.  He  planned  to  make  it  the  chief  work  of  his  declining 
years.  His  great  mastery  of  practical  details  was  both  an  educa- 
tion and  an  inspiration  to  me.  For  years  hardly  a  day  passed 
that  he  did  not  visit  the  institution  intent  upon  some  improve- 
ment in  building,  grounds,  plans,  or  work. 

He  selected  with  rare  sagacity  his  board  of  trustees,  and 
these  gentlemen  have  ably  and  devotedly  stood  by  the  University 
in  all  its  vicissitudes.  They  have  had,  perhaps  it  is  not  improper 
for  me  to  say,  as  their  leading  object  the  carrying  out  of  his 
purposes. 


In  general,  Mr.  Clark  showed  singular  sagacity  in  leaving  to 
expert  knowledge  the  educational  policy  of  the  University. 

Highly  as  he  was  respected  in  Worcester,  I  have  always  had 
the  feeling  that  his  best  and  highest  qualities  were  not  as  well 
known  as  they  should  be.  I  am  sure  that  widely  as  his  name 
and  University  are  known,  both  will  grow  and  brighten  through 
the  coming  years. 

The  University,  its  plan,  material  equipment,  personnel,  pros- 
pects, success,  lay  close  to  his  heart  and  were  carried  on  his 
mind  incessantly ;   almost  literally  I  might  say  day  and  night. 

He  was  exquisitely  sensitive  to  every  breath  of  critical  praise 
or  blame  from  far  and  near.  He  read  or  heard  read  probably  every 
word  that  the  Worcester  press  has  printed  about  the  University. 

Even  the  voluminous  reports  of  the  Summer  School  lectures 
had  for  him  the  liveliest  interest.  He  strove,  too,  to  know 
something  of  the  contents  of  the  big  book  that  we  issued  in 
connection  with  the  decennial  celebration  last  summer. 

I  have  heard  men  of  other  States  who  were  personally  ac- 
quainted with  Mr.  Clark  speak  of  him  in  the  highest  terms  when 
discussing  his  business,  charitable,  and  social  relations.  I  never 
heard  a  breath  directly  or  indirectly  that  did  not  imply  the 
highest  business  honor  and  integrity. 

It  was  natural  that  a  son  of  Worcester  County,  after  making 
his  fortune,  should  make  this  city  the  home  of  his  last  years,  and 
that  he  should  select  it  as  the  location  of   his  great  university. 

I  am  certain  that  the  grief  of  the  city  he  sought  to  honor 
will  not  only  be  general  and  deep  and  worthily  expressed,  but 
that  his  name  will  be  cherished  here  with  lasting  honor. 


/  JJ. 


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